Outputs (5)

Classifying states: instrumental rhetoric or a compelling normative theory? (2017)
Journal Article
Coakley, M., & Maffettone, P. (2017). Classifying states: instrumental rhetoric or a compelling normative theory?. Ethics and Global Politics, 10(1), 58-76. https://doi.org/10.1080/16544951.2017.1341793

Many states use a classificatory approach to foreign policy: they put other states into particular categories and structure their engagement and relations partly as a result. There is one prominent modern international political theory – Rawls’ Law o... Read More about Classifying states: instrumental rhetoric or a compelling normative theory?.

Two Views of Assistance (2017)
Journal Article
Maffettone, P., & Muldoon, R. (2017). Two Views of Assistance. Philosophy and Social Criticism, 43(10), 998-1021. https://doi.org/10.1177/0191453717692646

The article makes two substantive contributions to the existing literature on the ethics of international assistance and global justice. First, it builds what we take to be a widely held set of propositions about international assistance into a consi... Read More about Two Views of Assistance.

Moral Cosmopolitanism and Democratic Values (2017)
Journal Article
Held, D., & Maffettone, P. (2017). Moral Cosmopolitanism and Democratic Values. Global Policy, 8(56), 54-64. https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.12412

In the past four decades topics related to the moral evaluation of global politics have occupied a central part of the philosophical debate. The first three sections of this essay provide a reconstruction of the defining features of the globalization... Read More about Moral Cosmopolitanism and Democratic Values.

Egalitarianism and the Great Recession: A Tale of Missed Connections? (2017)
Journal Article
Maffettone, P. (2018). Egalitarianism and the Great Recession: A Tale of Missed Connections?. Res Publica, 24(2), 237-256. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11158-016-9349-7

The main aim of this paper is to act as a corrective to the comparatively deafening silence of egalitarian political philosophy’s response to the Great Recession. The paper thus provides an accessible analysis of a new strand of empirical research in... Read More about Egalitarianism and the Great Recession: A Tale of Missed Connections?.

Rawls’ Duty of Assistance: A Defence and Re-Elaboration (2017)
Journal Article
Maffettone, P. (2017). Rawls’ Duty of Assistance: A Defence and Re-Elaboration. Etica & politica, XIX(I), 353-376

This paper examines Rawls’ duty of assistance (DOA). It argues that some of the major criticisms that have been levelled against the DOA are based on a mischaracterisation of Rawls’ position in ‘LP’. The paper also argues that what many of Rawls’ cri... Read More about Rawls’ Duty of Assistance: A Defence and Re-Elaboration.